U.S. flag An official website of the United States government.
Official websites use .gov

A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS

A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

i

Evaluating Gender Differences in Individual Accessibility: A Study Using Trip Data Collected by the Global Positioning System

File Language:
English


Details

  • Creators:
    Kwan, Mei-Po
  • Corporate Creators:
    Battelle Memorial Institute
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    In this technical report, the problem of using conventional measures to evaluate personal accessibility is examined. It is argued that these measures ignore the situational complexities of activity-travel behavior and the role of space-time constraints in shaping the accessibility experience of individuals. As these factors bear significantly upon women's everyday lives, all conventional accessibility measures suffer from an inherent "gender bias" which is hitherto unnoticed. In view of these limitations of conventional accessibility measures, this study argues that defining accessibility as space-time feasibility instead of locational proximity would enable us to understand better the accessibility experience of individuals in their everyday lives. It proposes and provides formulations of alternative accessibility measures based on the construct of the space-time prism for studying gender differences in access to urban opportunities. To examine gender differences in individual accessibility, a network-based geographic information system (GIS) method was used to operationalize space-time measures based on the formulations of Burns (1979) and Kwan (1998). These methods were implemented using global positioning system- (GPS-) based trip data collected in the Lexington Area Travel Data Collection study (GPS), a digital transportation network, and a geographic database of all facilities in the study area.
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Collection(s):
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:f3bbd02bfd791e4fc154fb26ce9e719e299a8a8fb0ffafa3a4be7c614d3c6865d0748410686feb74a2ca9c91cf5a68562302c564eead416908380f686ab551da
  • Download URL:
  • File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 465.84 KB ]
PREVIOUS
File Language:
English
ON THIS PAGE
Details
 Found an issue?
Send us an email at:
publishinghd@cdc.gov
ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT or funded partners. As a repository, ROSA P retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.
BACK TO TOP